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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/21] ARCNET: Defibrillation
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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 23:14:41 +0200

> On 04/24/2015 08:47 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 19:20 +0200, Michael Grzeschik wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>>> This patch series tries to reanimate the ARCNET hardware layer to be
>>> somehow readable and maintainable again. It includes a lot of cleanup
>>> patches. It also adds some fixes which leads the layer to become usable
>>> again. And as a special treatment it adds more features like correct
>>> loading and unloading of the com20020 card.
>>
>> Wow. Good for you, but why? Does anyone still use these?
>
> Yes, there are parts of the industry where "old" machines are
> retrofitted with new hardware...and a lot of these machines still talk
> ARCNET :)

But the real issue is, this layer is development wise in the same
category as the IDE layer.

Any non-trivial change is nothing but pure risk, especially given the
low level of test coverage the code gets.

So I really only want to see the most critical obvious bug fixes
submitted for this layer and drivers.

And no I will not accept an argument stating that you have to
restructure and clean this code up in order to fix the bugs. That's
bogus.

I'm rejecting this patch series, sorry.


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